Previously unveiled at CharaHobby as a novelty, Toyota says the car proved so popular with Gundam fans it decided to make a commercial product of it – and whether Gundam fans or not, few could deny it is a strikingly designed vehicle:

Given the record of Evangelion when it comes to cars, an Eva-themed vehicle seems more than a remote possibility.

I always think of initial d when car articles are posted on SanCon. Then it makes me want to take my rice rocket and attempt to drift, but I can just imagine myself braking really hard when I go into a turn too fast and flip my car, lol.

I have this feeling that a lot of the sales will be exports. And you know what, I, when money allows for it, will certainly import one. Therefore, I think toyota will succeed in this business venture and I hope to see many more such inspired designs.

Toyota has the right gimmicks but it’s too big for the target audience: a young jap in the metro.

A car sized like that are unbelievably taxed and expensive to keep around. A proper size class for a young jap would be the Kei-class. Clear benefit of Kei-class cars is they’re affordable and exempted from limits of owning regular sized cars.

Do you by any chance live in Japan? If you don’t, have you seen the cars in here? They are TINY. “Regular size” cars are a rarity.

That said, I’m no sure if the target audience of this is by any means “young jap in the metro”. I’d figure it’s more of bit older generation, and probably at least away from Tokyo where a car is more like burden than convenience…